(LA MUJER SIN CABEZA, Lucrecia Martel, Argentina 2008, 87 min., Spanish/subtitles)

In the intriguing and surreal new film from the much-heralded director of The Holy Girl and La Cienaga, Maria Onetto plays an upper-class woman whose perfect life may be a dream or whose nightmare accident (was that a child her car hit? a dog? or nothing?) may indicate that her entire existence lacks reality. “[This] droll, enigmatic fable about bourgeois discombobulation … has the comic timing of Samuel Beckett, the composition and color sense of William Eggleston, and the very peculiar paranoid atmosphere of Lucrecia Martel. See for yourself.” (Stuart Klawans, The Nation)